Transcriber's Note This version of the text is unable to reproduce certain typographic features. Italics are delimited with the '_' character as _italic_. The position of photographs and maps are indicated as [Illustration: <caption>] where a descriptive caption exists. Each as been repositioned, where necessary, to fall at a paragraph or chapter break. Where no caption exists, a brief description has been added, using '<>' as delimiters. The 'oe' ligature is rendered as separate characters. Any text printed using "small capitals" was shifted to all upper-case. Please see the transcriber's notes at the end of this text for a more complete account of any other textual issues and their resolution. [Illustration: BRONZE CHARIOTEER FOUND AT DELPHI] VACATION DAYS IN GREECE BY RUFUS B. RICHARDSON FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ARCHÆOLOGY, ATHENS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1903 COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published, September, 1903 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK To MY SON THE COMPANION OF MY TRAVELS PREFACE During a residence of eleven years in Greece I have formed the habit of writing to certain periodicals descriptions of my journeys. The occasion for making a book out of these articles was the suggestion on the part of many members of the American School of Classical Studies, at Athens, who had shared these journeys with me, that I should do so, and so make the descriptions accessible to them. I yielded to this suggestion all the more readily from the consideration that my wanderings have taken me into many nooks and corners not usually visited by those whose stay in the country is short. Having seen the sunrise from most of the mountain-tops of the country, having forded many of its rivers, and having caught the indescribable color at early dawn and at evening twilight, from the deck of coasting steamers, all along these fascinating shores, I felt it only right that I should try to convey to others, less fortunate than myself, some picture, however inadequate, of all this experience and enjoyment. All that is here set down is, however, but a part of a larger picture that is ever present in my memory.